Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin shoved offensive line coach Tom Cable on Sunday. Now the talented, probably underrated receiver is apologizing for his actions.
The shove came during the second quarter. Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said he told Cable to talk to Seattle's offense on the sideline after it came off the field, but Baldwin wanted quarterback Russell Wilson to be the one doing the talking.
Then, because television, the CBS broadcast showed a replay of Baldwin trying to push Cable aside.
“I lost my cool. It's 100 percent my fault,” Baldwin said. “At that moment, I was really frustrated with the offense as a whole. Not the coaching staff — the players. Again, it goes back to our X's and O's. We had the playcalls. We just didn't execute. Whether it was passing the ball, blocking, catching, jumping offsides, false starting, whatever it may be, we weren't executing as players, and to me there is nothing a coach can say. We have to take accountability for that.”
Doug Baldwin, while showing what appeared to be sincere regret, did want to stress that this wasn't him actually going after Cable.
“Y'all know I love Cable to death,” he said. “Me and Cable have one of the best relationships from coach to player. That was 100 percent my fault. I already apologized to him. He knows how I am. It's just at that moment, the players needed to realize it's the players — it's not the coaches.”
While the optics look bad on the outside, it seems like this will be something the team gets through in great haste.
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